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Quotes from Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 — Neal Stephenson

born 1959 United States

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Whitehouse disappeared into ignominy. William Thomson ended up being knighted and later elevated to a baron by Queen Victoria. He became Lord Kelvin and eventually got an important unit of measurement, an even more important law of physics, and a refrigerator named after him.

Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neal Stephenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.